ands of Jewish children ;areLstill. growing,*.:.; up in the East with 110' hope .of a sound education. It' is in- particular urgently necessary to provide;: .more ???adequately, -for..: the education of -girls— anaspect.of;the. matter to which the Association attaches the greatest i-npprt'ance. ference between its assured income and These considerations are reinfo-r.cecl bv1 pe enlargement of 'British interests in the East as a result of the war. So far ^ as ^Palestine is concerned, it is not anti-' ? cip:vLed that any extension of the Asso--. -ciation's activities will be' called fori', thcgh there is 110 prospect of its being relieved for the present of the' \ heavy burden- entailed by the 'maintenance of''? Evelina de Rothschild- School:' inV-Jerusa- 1 lem, which provides- for the education ??.of. 600 girls at an annual - cost , of £3420; On ; the other hand, -the; engagements' into ; ?vvlii -h Great Britain has entered both in Mesopotamia, and in -Persia- make it natu ral that tlie welfare -.of the considerable ?Jewish population of -these countries: should -be - .the.:' .special care of British 'Jews. ' ???/''?. ??????. ? For these reasons it is vitally important,' that the -Association's- educational work should be not only maintained, but ex- ; 'tended. Philanthropic Work.—' Whenever ? disas- . -$er has overtaken .a Jewish community broad, the ??sufferers- have invariably rned toi the Association for relief. It' as had- to deal, with emergencies of the j.ost varied character— nowr:. a, - Russian ' 'mrom, 'now-.. an earthquake .in:.Asia Mi- - . jy, now ? a famine in Morocco. -.Con;; spicuous instances in recent-years 'are the massacre -of - Jews' at Fez rn/1911 and the J'fire: which destroyed the Jewish quarter of .Salonika an 1916. In every case the Association lias 'provided such immediate relief , j as- : Avas - practicable, and has made a prompt1. : and^usually an. effective, ap peal: to the- Anglo-Jewish community. fckieh emergencies demand, however,, an instant response.::.- The Association has h.ithmito'liM*'no'fund.'s of its own on-which -? it could draw for this -purpose, and i1 is* now desirous of creating :a small emer- ?? geney fund: from which. -temporary relief - can be immediately afforded where cir III. The'', financial, position of - the Associa-, tioil is gravely unsatisfactory. For some , years past the measure of support, it has . received, from the Anglo-Jewish commu nity has not been commensurate ? with '-the ' importance of its work. The an nual in come on which it can at present rely is only £3,000. as against an annual expeii difiure of £5,800, nearly the ??whole.'., of which is devoted to the education 'of-' about 10.000 children . As a consequence, it has only been able- to meet the current;., expenses of , the Evelina de. Rothschild School in Jerusalem by -drawing - to the ?extent of £4,400 on the fund accumulated for the necessary purpose of re-housing it; It has, moreover, almost entirely ex hausted the fund gradually built up ''since'' ; 1885 to provide for - capital expenditure